D-Day, June 6, 1944....more than two months later, Aug 25, Paris was officially liberated from the Germans

Today in History Today is Sunday, Aug. 25, the 237th day of 2013. There are 128 days left in the year.

Today in History: On this date: In 1825, Uruguay declared independence from Brazil. In 1916, the National Park Service was established within the Department of the Interior. In 1943, U.S.-led Allied troops liberated New Georgia in the Solomon Islands from Japanese forces during World War II In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure providing pensions for former U.S. presidents and their widows. In 1981, the U.S. spacecraft Voyager 2 came within 63,000 miles of Saturn's cloud cover, sending back pictures of and data about the ringed planet. In 1993, Amy Biehl, a 26-year-old Fulbright scholar from Newport Beach, Calif., was slain by a mob near Cape Town, South Africa. (The four men convicted in Biehl's death claimed the attack was part of the war on apartheid; they were granted amnesty after confessing before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.) In 2009, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy died at age 77 in Hyannis Port, Mass. One year ago: Neil Armstrong, 82, who commanded the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing and was the first man to set foot on the moon in July 1969, died in Cincinnati.

In Entertainment history -On August 25th, In 1973, Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks suffered a broken leg in a car crash in Macon, Ga. In 1976, Boston released their self-titled album. In 1980, the long-running Broadway musical "42nd Steet" opened. After the performance, it was announced that director Gower Champion had died earlier in the day. In 1984, author Truman Capote died in Los Angeles. An autopsy revealed he overdosed on valium, codeine and barbiturates. In 1986, Paul Simon's "Graceland" album was released. In 1994, a New York Supreme Court justice formally dissolved the marriage between Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley. In 1999, keyboardist Rob Fisher of Naked Eyes died after a long illness. He was 39. In 2001, singer Aaliyah (ah-LEE'-yah) and eight others died in a plane crash shortly after takeoff in the Bahamas. She was 22.

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